Are all people created equal?

[Liberal]

If you look at it from an evolutionary perspective, it is, as every one knows, survival of the fittest.

mmm. I’m not sure if everyone knows that or not.

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From Larry Borgia

This is ridiculous. “Survival of the fittest” is a popular catchphrase. The engine of evolution is the tremendous potential for variation within a species. AS species respond to differing pressures, they will develop differing characteristcs, especially when Geographically isolated. This has been proven time and time again. Look at the finches of Galapagos, or the Tenrecs of Madagascar. What the hell is so circular about that?
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From Phobos

As has been stated, the OP is a strawman arguement. Evolution is not based on survival of the fittest. That’s just a catch-phrase aspect of evolution.
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From BarnStorm

Here’s the deal: Evolution is true. Survival of the fittest is not.

This very topic worried Darwin a lot and he devoted several chapters to it.
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From tomndebb

Herbert Spencer picked out one idea from all the works of Darwin: that species facing new threats that have not adapted to meet those threats will go extinct. From that one idea, he coined the phrase “survival of the fittest.” He then used the phrase as a linchpin of a specific theory of society that came to be known as Social Darwinism. Darwin, who became friends with Spencer, used the phrase in his last few revisions of Origin of Species because the phrase had become well-known and Darwin thought that it expressed a single aspect of his theory in a way that his reading public could grasp. Social Darwinism, however, does not begin with the scientific concepts of Natural Selection. Rather, one philosophical writer took a single aspect out of context to develop a theory that has nothing in common with the actual scientific work of Darwin.
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And there are others scattered about…

[Jack_Batty]

*Originally posted by NiceGuyJack *
**The question can’t be answered because it makes an incorrect assumption.

First, “creation” would indicate that a higher being or entity threw some instant people mix into a bowl, added water, stirred, baked for a couple of hours and presto, people!
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I knew this would raise its ugly head sooner or later. I was choosing to ignore it for the purpose of the argument. I didn’t want to get embroiled in a religous discussion.
However, for these purposes, I was simlpy working under the follwing definition, however flawed it may be: creation=the moment one is born.
At that moment, what are the factors that govern one’s value to society - inherrent qualities or environment? In which case I am in agreement with Primaflora. It’s a little of both. But I still hold the belief that a great many unforeseen forces have a huge bearing on one’s lot in life. When I have a few hundred hours to spare, I’ll explain my theory on potential bio-timelines, as soon as get my tinfoil hat made.

[zero]

Can someone please give me a formula so that I can compute my scalar value? I want to see if I was born equal to everyone else.

If no one has an formula, then I suggest I was born equal by axiom of the constitution.

Can someone come up with a counter example?